diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_hw_counters.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_hw_counters.c
index 6aeb7a165e46919c1c3651d72776fd05f03173b1..ea4542a9d69e68523558455c138412f9b6341684 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_hw_counters.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_hw_counters.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int rxe_ib_get_hw_stats(struct ib_device *ibdev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	for (cnt = 0; cnt  < ARRAY_SIZE(rxe_counter_name); cnt++)
-		stats->value[cnt] = dev->stats_counters[cnt];
+		stats->value[cnt] = atomic64_read(&dev->stats_counters[cnt]);
 
 	return ARRAY_SIZE(rxe_counter_name);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.h b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.h
index a0ec28d2b71a4e146b66376257aed4c181889547..6a75f96b90962db0806613b7e31eba6d66d5a986 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.h
@@ -409,16 +409,16 @@ struct rxe_dev {
 	spinlock_t		mmap_offset_lock; /* guard mmap_offset */
 	int			mmap_offset;
 
-	u64			stats_counters[RXE_NUM_OF_COUNTERS];
+	atomic64_t		stats_counters[RXE_NUM_OF_COUNTERS];
 
 	struct rxe_port		port;
 	struct list_head	list;
 	struct crypto_shash	*tfm;
 };
 
-static inline void rxe_counter_inc(struct rxe_dev *rxe, enum rxe_counters cnt)
+static inline void rxe_counter_inc(struct rxe_dev *rxe, enum rxe_counters index)
 {
-	rxe->stats_counters[cnt]++;
+	atomic64_inc(&rxe->stats_counters[index]);
 }
 
 static inline struct rxe_dev *to_rdev(struct ib_device *dev)